What are you thinking common sense?! This movie is for mature teens!

I have loved this movie from the day it came out. I went to the theater with my mom and when we got home, she hid in the hallway and as I was walking to my room, threw my toy clown at me...sick and twisted. I love this movie and my oldest loves it, too.

An awesome ghost movie that is very intense and contains one particularly gruesome scene.Do not be fooled by the PG rating, it's not for kids. Also, there is a scene of drug use. Unlike today's horror films, this movie does not rely on cheap scares to keep the audience interested, it is a genuinely scary movie. However, this movie is awesome and everyone should watch this great movie.

Although this movie has mild language I do recomend it for kids who enjoy a good scary movie. My son loves scary movies but now a days it is very hard to find one that doesnt have sex or nudity in it. With this movie you need not worry about sex or nudity. The worst thing you see in regards to nudity is the mother in her underwear. The language in this movie was also mild and there is one scene where the parents are smoking drugs in the bedroom but to a child could be taken as a cigarette.

No positive messages, no good examples at all. BUT who cares!? This was my favorite scary movie growing up, and on my daughter's 13th (this year), I will absolutely allow and encourage her to watch it. Be forewarned, I did have nightmares, but it was AWESOME to be that scared.

It's a shame that the other adult reviewers are upset with this movie. I am wondering whether or not they are kids that just lied and typed in a false age. This movie is not predictable and dull. It is an amazing movie with outstanding acting, Special effects, and storyline/plot. It is very violent and gory (in one scene, see above review) but most kids 12-13+ should be able to handle it. 5 stars.

This movie is just dull. It lacks any good scares at all and is too predictable.

I enjoyed this movie alot, but it's not as good as other horror movies. The violence is one gory scene which a man rips the flesh from his face revealing chunks of gore (we see he's hallucinating, though), a boy is attacked by a tree, and some scary images. Language is very mild, and no sex if I remember correctly. I rate this OFF for 8 and under, IFFY for 9-10, and ON for 11 and older.

The only bloody part is when the man scratches his face off, the rest is just plain scary! It scared me so bad!

This is a great movie. The only scary part is with the clown. I was 10 when I saw it, and was only scared for one night.

I watched it and I had nightmares... there are some great parts but Common Sense forgot to mention that there is a long scene where rotting disgusting corpses burst from floors and the ground and there is a scene where the mother is caught in a pool filled with decomposing bodies. And for kids scared of clowns (even not scared of clowns!) it may be not suitable. It's not for kids ages younger than 12 or 13.

It never scared me. my parents tried to scare me when I was 10 because no other movie could. even my older brother was scared by it. not me. but apparently it scared everybody else. there is violence swearing drugs and smoking. still it's a cool movie even though it didn't scare me

Great movie for teenagers, strongly recommend it. That doll is really freaky, and I love the scene where the man starts clawing at his own face.

this scared me when i was like 8 (beacause of the clown LOL) but now that i think bout it its not so scary anymore but it was good

This is one of my favorite movies ever; even though the special-effects are horrible. Which makes me ask myself why the heck does this movie scare you? After I thought about it for a bit I realized that it scared me mostly because of the doll the boy is scared of that comes to life (it's not scary but it just disturbs me), and what happens to that family because my family thinks our house is a little bit haunted. But anyway great movie!!!!! See it see it see it!

Even though it has some cheesy parts that made me laugh, this is a pretty scary movie. For the most part the graphics aren't fantastic (it's not a brand new movie) but the dead who pop up at the end look pretty real. @_@ It's not explicit in violence or language or other stuff, but because it had some scary images and it IS a horror film it's probably nor suitable for kids under 10 years old. Great movie; I recommend it.

First thing.... I LOVE STEVEN SPIELBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a fantastic movie about a simple haunted house, i won't try to explain the plot because it's too complicated, but it dose have some issues: 1. little actual violince, scary ghosts and skeletons, a man rips his own face of but if you could handle the face melting scene at the end of raiders of the lost ark, you should be ok. 2. mild language incluing Bas--rd, D--n, one use of "the finger". 3. the mom briefly smokes marjuina. So this is an awsome haunted house movie for teens 13 and up......if you think your brave enough.....MWAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

I watched this with my friend in her THeater room at her house. It was 10:00 at night, on a VERY large screen, in the woods.(Her house in the woods.)Being the baby I am, I was kinda scared. My other friend hid under a blanket every other 5 minutes, so I don't fell too bad about my scaredy-cat actions. I would've been more frightened, but my friend's 1-year-old brother was hitting something against the wall now and then, so that brought me back to reality. An astonishing movie. I just wish clowns didn't seem so scary now.

The movie Poltergeist was the best horror movie I have ever seen. I watch it all the time with my family. A lot of young kids would find it really scary so if your kid is ten and younger I suggest not to let them watch it or else they'll be creeped out for days.I watched it when I was 9 years old and I didn't find it to scary but I bet other kids will. There is a scene that might make some people quesy Because one part this guy looks into a mirror and his mind gets took over by ghosts and he imagines he's taking his face apart and it's really gross.This movie is defentily a good movie.

This movie is okay; it kept me fairly entertained, anyway. The graphics would be much better if they redid the movie. There is definitely some swearing; at least twenty, including Oh my G-d, d-mn, h-ll, go to h-ll, son of a b-tch, and others numerous times. Violence is definitely there, as is blood and gore. One man completely shreds his face, with lots of blood and chunks of meet, until it's just his skull. Men and women get covered in blood and chunks of gore. Sex and Nudity: You see a woman in a bathtub, but nothing private shows. You also see her underwear. A mild innuendo or two.

Movie has woman in panties rolling on ceiling; tree grabbing child and "eating it"; commercializes TV; language like sh-- and bit--; movie okay for people my age. Great movie also.

im 11 and i watched it heck you could be 9 and not get scared the effects were like those of ghost busters still a great movie watch it late at night though that's when it is funnest to watch

dont waste ur time watchin this. i don't like the part where the guys face is weird in the bathroom (kinda scary) but other then that the movie was pretty boring. there is better movies to watch then to waste your time on this one

I watched this movie on Scifi when i was eight. I asked my mom to watch it with me. It was scary but not enough to give me nightmares. Its kinda funny for older people. I loved this movie. Whenever i have sleepover with my friends we love to watch this movie. I give it two thumbs up.

Poltergeist was a very good horror movie. It was scary but not too scary, it was probably appropriate for anyone 12 or older but do not listen to CSM Poltergeist is NOT FOR 9 YEAR OLDS!!! I don't know what they were thinking, but this movie would have given me major nightmares if I had seen it when I was 9. It's too scary for kids of that age. But for everyone else it is a very good movie.

This is one of the best horror movies I've ever seen- it stands with "the Shining" and "The Sixth Sense" (though all three of them aren't scary, and, in my opnion, should not be considered horror). I am just now reviewing this movie because my mother was worried about it (you know how mothers can be), and wanted me to wait until seeing it. It was fine-- if you've seen any of Spielberg's other tension movies, then this is perfectly acceptable (especially if you've seen "Saving Private Ryan", though if you have, I doubt you'll be worried about this movie's content.)